News India’s IT Minister on DPDP Bill: Law should be kept ‘simple’, subordinate rules won’t exceed Act Ashwini Vaishnaw was interviewed by HT and responded to criticisms of the draft Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022 Akshit ChawlaDecember 3, 2022
News No Date On When E-Gov Data Anonymisation Guidelines Will Be Released Again India’s IT Ministry is still deliberating on when to re-release its draft guidelines on the anonymisation of e-gov data for public consultation. “The matter... Aarathi GanesanDecember 1, 2022
News DPDP Bill, 2022: Experts Say Withholding Public Feedback Is Problematic, Call For Improved Consultations Why MeitY withholding public comments on the draft bill harms transparency, and how consultations and engagement can be improved Akshit ChawlaNovember 30, 2022
News DPDP Bill, 2022 Has Received Good Response From Stakeholders: MeitY’s Ashwini Vaishnaw Ashwini Vaishnaw, India's IT and Electronics minister (MeitY), defended the draft data protection bill 2022 on several fronts Akshit ChawlaNovember 25, 2022
News Twitter Blocks Tweet of CJ Werleman’s YouTube Show Discussing Police Violence Against Indian Muslims Twitter has blocked a tweet from “The CJ Werleman Show” at the Indian government’s request, according to an order publicly disclosed on the Lumen... Aarathi GanesanNovember 25, 2022
News Govt Deliberating If Public Feedback Should Be Made Public: MeitY Official On DPDP Bill 2022 The MeitY has announced that public feedback on the new data protection bill will not be publicly available, but this is problematic Akshit ChawlaNovember 21, 2022
News Ahead of G20 Presidency, India Takes Over As Council Chair of Artificial Intelligence Forum India will chair the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI), at the G20 summit during its year-long presidency, announced MeitY Aarathi GanesanNovember 21, 2022
News New Data Protection Law Captures Consumers’ Right to Data Protection: Rajeev Chandrasekhar to The Indian Express In an interview with the Indian Express, Rajeev Chandrasekhar of MeitY commented on the recently released draft data protection law in India Aarathi GanesanNovember 21, 2022
News New Independent “Data Protection Board” to Evaluate Non-Compliance With Draft Data Protection Law We summarize the provisions of the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022 relating to the role of Data Protection Board Aarathi GanesanNovember 19, 2022
News DPDP Bill, 2022: Transfers of Personal Data to Select Countries Will Be Allowed DPDP 2022 says personal data of Indians can be transferred to 'notified' countries, and has removed data localisation provisions Aarathi GanesanNovember 18, 2022